" ... Key concepts of how to effectively manage a farm business. ... basic information needed to measure performance, financial progress, and the financial condition of the farm business."--Back cover
Includes index
Farm management in the twenty-first century -- Management and decision making -- Acquiring and organizing management information -- Depreciation and asset valuation -- The balance sheet and its analysis -- The income statement and its analysis -- Economic principles-choosing production levels -- Economic principles-choosing input and output combinations -- Cost concepts in economics -- Enterprise budgeting -- Partial budgeting -- Whole-farm planning -- Cash flow budgeting -- Farm business organization and transfer -- Managing risk and uncertainty -- Managing income taxes -- Investment analysis -- Farm business analysis -- Capital and the use of credit -- Land-control and use -- Human resource management -- Machinery management